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Published inFeb 2024
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Gus Frazer
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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
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Understanding DAX

DAX is a formula and query language that plays a pivotal role in Power BI, helping users of Power BI to perform complex calculations and analysis on their data. It’s a language created by Microsoft for their suite of products and was first introduced in 2009 along with Power Pivot for Excel, something that was then also incorporated into Power BI. Helping to create and define custom calculations and formulas goes beyond the capabilities of traditional Excel functions.

Interestingly, it originated from the need to bridge the gap between relational database systems and traditional spreadsheet tools to help lower the barrier for professionals by providing a formula language that was more user-friendly for business analysts who may not be SQL experts, hence why DAX has been designed to work with tabular data models. Microsoft recognized the limitations of Excel at handling large sets of data and complex calculations, and this then led them to develop DAX, which...

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Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805126409

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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
Read more about Gus Frazer